Doom-crafting is superior to doom-scrolling in my eyes. Creation beats consumption.

Damn that sucks. In the UK a full time employee gets a minimum of 28 days off a year, and you’ll probably be encouraged to at least tell the company how you’ll use them before the end of the financial year, depending on how the company does time off.

That’s good, and I’m glad to have been informed of it.

Thank you.

My copyright change is the 17 years from first publication. Feels maybe still a little long, but much better than what we have now.

OK, if you ignore the hyperbole of my pre-christmas stress aggressive start, how much of the rest do you disagree with?

Less combatitively, I’m of the stance that just make AI generated materials exempt from copyright and you’ll at least limit mass adoption in public facing things by big money. Doesn’t address all the issues, though.

If you take that image, copy it and then try to resell it for profit you’ll find you’re quickly in breach of copyright.

The LLM is, in most cases, being licensed out to users for a profit off of the input data without which it could not exist in its current form.

You could see it akin to plagiarism if you think ctrl+c, ctrl+v is too extreme.

Have we A.I.ified “whimsy” into a synonym of “cute” now, have we?

Well not me! No, never I! I shall stand firm!

Yes.

In fact, it works as a triple score bonus, as are all of the following: Quintessons, Shattered Glass, the Silmarillion, Babylon 5, putting DS9/Voyager above TNG, non-televised sport, Gojira, and “I’m not a fan of Anime/Manga I only like [Insert, odds on Gainax, title or studio here]”.

Yes.

Thanks for confirming it. 🙏🏽

Good detecting. Thanks for finding out.

Quick search doesn’t give me a source.

What’s this from, and how long ago was it published?

Yeah, it’s only really “Be” and “have” that have any conjugation variety in English, and then the old 3rd singular +s and past tense and participles.

Since most English speakers don’t learn much grammar it can be tricky. A few lessons on English grammar would probably make learning a second language much easier.

Do you remember your conjugation tables from Spanish or French class?

English has them too, but the modern ones are much smaller than most (all?) other European languages.

Editted in:
Prn. | To be | note I am 1st person (the speaker) singular.
We are 1st person plural.
Thou art 2nd person (the one being spoken to) singular (archaic).
You are 2nd plural and singular.
(s)he /it is 3rd person (neither the speaker or spoken to) singular.
They are 3rd plural and singular

The conjugation of Be, “is” is not used in the second person (you, be it singular or plural) any more than “am” is (“am” is first person singular form.) regardless of the plurality (or lack thereof) in the subject.

The correct Be conjugations for second person subjects are “art” (2nd, singular, archaic) and “are”.

That’s because “is” is the third person conjugation of Be, not the second. Of course it sounds weird.

“Thou are”, and the actually correct “thou art” both feel much more natural.

It’s hard to when no space or support is allowed for criticism of capitalism in mainstream politics.

The Far Right has been given huge amounts of media coverage in the UK, maxes headlines whenever they sneeze. Left of centre left parties never get given positive - or even balanced - coverage.

Either you tar and feather them with whatever sticks (Corbyn, Melchanthon), or ignore them (Yanofakis, Lucas).

Yes, the Left could, must, do better at telling a narrative about what it is for and will do. But detailed criticism or self and systemic issues doesn’t galvanise people the way “we’re great but under threat” does.

You’re most welcome.

Guess I’ll see you sometime in the comments of an altruism vs. selfish satisfaction of doing a good deed post.

I agree with much of all you’ve said in theory, and you have a consistent ideology and that’s, in my opinion, the most important starting point.

That’s all very fair and sensible.

I can see it being very frustrating if people’s first response to ideologies close to you is dunk on Rand rather than actually engaging with what you’re trying to say.

I think a better critique of “rational self interest” if you’re looking for one would be that it can be argued to be either too widespread to have meaning (the flip side of “I don’t agree with them/am starting from different axioms thus they’re irrational”), or too narrow and thus never actually employed.

It is a shame that other Rational Self-interest philosophies don’t get their time in the sun… While Rand I hear is still required/recommended reading in some schools.
An advantage of writing fiction to articulate your ideas I suppose.

Scrofula.

Anyone checking for a actual executions should look about 3/4 down the first column.

You would be correct.